carpophore

[ kahr-puh-fawr, -fohr ]

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noun

, Botany.

a slender prolongation of the floral axis, bearing the carpels of some compound fruits, as in many plants of the parsley family.
Mycology. the fruiting body of the higher fungi.

carpophore

/ ˈkɑːpəˌfɔː /

carpophore

/ kär′pə-fôr′ /

A fleshy, spore-producing body of basidiomycetes and ascomycetes. In common usage, the term mushroom is applied to carpophores that have a distinctive stipe and cap.
A slender stalk that supports each half of a dehisced fruit in many members of the parsley family.

First recorded in 1865–70; carpo- ¹ + -phore

The two carpels are close together, with their adjacent surfaces flattened, and are fixed to a central axis called the carpophore.

In some Borragineous flowers, such as Houndstongue, the gynobase runs up in the centre between the carpels into a carpophore.

Fruit (cremocarp) of Osmorrhiza; the two akene-like ripe carpels separating at maturity from a slender axis or carpophore.

Carpophore, the stalk or support of a pistil extending between its carpels, 113.

A Carpophore is a prolongation of receptacle or axis between the carpels and bearing them.

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